Lana Turner

The real-life embodiment of every movie star cliché, Lana
Turner's youthful blonde beauty earned her a Hollywood contract in the late
1930s while she was still a teenager, and
MGM quickly molded the young starlet into a glamorous, popular "sweater
girl" pin-up during World War II. Though many of her film roles amounted
to little more than set decoration, and her off-screen love affairs always
garnered more publicity than her performances, nevertheless Turner's acting
abilities improved over the course of her four-decade career, and she made
credible contributions to films ranging from wartime
MGM gloss and gritty, post-war film
noirs to soapy, 1950s melodramas like PEYTON PLACE (1957), for which she
received her first and only Academy Award nomination.

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Music Clips:

"Main
Title" (clip) from THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952) by David Raksin
(a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records).

"The
Letdown" (clip) from THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952) by David Raksin
(a .MP3 file courtesy Rhino Records).